Learning and Detecting Emergent Behavior in Networks of Cardiac Myocytes
HSCC '08 Proceedings of the 11th international workshop on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
StonyCam: A Formal Framework for Modeling, Analyzing and Regulating Cardiac Myocytes
Concurrency, Graphs and Models
Learning and detecting emergent behavior in networks of cardiac myocytes
Communications of the ACM - Being Human in the Digital Age
RaPTEX: Rapid prototyping tool for embedded communication systems
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Performance evaluation of sensor networks by statistical modeling and euclidean model checking
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
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A notable features of many proposed Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) deployments is their scale: hundreds to thousands of nodes linked together. In such systems, modeling the state of the entire system as a cross-product of the states of individual nodes results in the well-known state explosion problem. Instead, we represent the system state by the probability distribution on the state of each node. In other words, the system state represents the probability that a randomly picked node is in a certain state. Although such statistical abstraction of the global state loses some information, it is nevertheless useful in determining many performance metrics of systems that exhibit Markov behavior. We have previously developed a method for specifying the performance metrics of such systems in a probabilistic temporal logic called iLTL and for evaluating the behavior through a novel method for model checking iLTL properties. In this paper, we describe a method for estimating the probabilities in a Discrete Time Markov Chain (DTMC) model of a large-scale system. We also provide a statistical test so that we can reject estimated DTMCs if the actual system does not have Markov behavior. We describe results of experiments applying our method toWSNs in an experimental test-bed, as well as using simulations. The results of our experiments suggest that our model estimation and model checking method provides a systematic, precise and easy way of evaluating performance metrics of some large-scale WSNs.